When Anna Gaebler says "get well," she really means have a drink. The 12-year-old River Forest girl is selling get-well greeting cards which she designed outside the Oak Park Farmers' Market, to help raise money to build wells in Africa.

Two weeks ago, as Ridgeland Common staff closed down the park district's pool and prepared to gear up for ice rink operations, they made a disheartening but not totally unexpected discovery. The 45-year-old pipes under the rink that hold the cooling element were leaking like a sieve.

Neighbors of a proposed mixed use development at Madison Street and Grove Avenue turned out last week as the Plan Commission heard a revised proposal from developer Alex Troyanovsky for a 36-unit development, down from 39 units.

Who Killed the Electric Car? That's what we want to know. We're directing an Agatha Christie play at the moment, and we've got murder on our mind, so naturellement we were intrigued to discover that the question above is the title of a documentary film to be shown at Oak Park Public Library, 834 Lake St., on Sunday, Sept. 30, at 2 p.m., sponsored by the Oak Park Coalition for Truth and Justice (447-1547).

An Oak Park man remains hospitalized after being shot by two Chicago tactical officers last Thursday. Eddie Jones, 30, was attempting to avoid being arrested on a narcotics and gun possession warrant by Chicago tactical officers. Jones, who underwent surgery at Loyola Hospital Medical Center Thursday afternoon, had hit one officer with his car on Home Avenue just north of Washington Boulevard.

Triton College earned a below-average grade on its final exam with the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The HLC granted Triton a seven-year accreditation, making it one of just two junior colleges in Illinois to receive less than the standard 10-year accreditation under the commission's Program to Evaluate and Advance Quality.

Recently released federal court documents show that two senior River Forest police officers suing the village are seeking "no less than $3.1 million dollars" in compensatory damages, as well as undetermined punitive damages. In addition, they seek a total of $229,000 in outstanding legal fees.

At many schools in Oak Park and elsewhere, there are some things that just aren't allowed, such as fighting and bullying. But hugging? At Julian Middle School, 416 S. Ridgeland, Principal Victoria Sharts recently sent out a notice to teachers about just that: Stop students from hugging.

Just six months after parking enforcement operations were shifted under police department supervision, the village is seeing benefits. Police started conducting annual checks on parking officers' driving records, which turned up three employees with revoked driver's licenses.